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CASE STUDY ONE - TJ Composting Group Ltd
TJ Composting Group Ltd
TJ Composting diverts green waste from landfill by working with local authorities and waste management companies to provide sustainable solutions.
It currently composts 55,000 tonnes of material each year across the UK and has bases in Warwickshire, Essex, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire.
The £3,000 voucher will go towards developing their range of compost products even further and to help it sell to individuals alongside its existing commercial market.
They produce three main grades of compost for agriculture, landscape and horticulture.
Waste is shredded and a stimulant enzyme is added. The mixture is then turned regularly under British Standard PAS 100, until it is ready to be sold.
Chairman Petra Johnston said: “Our market historically has been local authorities and their contractors because we are diverting green waste from landfill,” she said.
“But the finished compost product is mainly sold to the landscape and construction markets, farms and horticultural businesses.”
She added: “I would like to develop into the retail market through the INDEX scheme so that individuals can buy our products.”
For more information visit www.tjcomposting.co.uk
CASE STUDY TWO - Key Traffic Systems
Key Traffic Systems
All road signs in the UK were designed using software made by Key Traffic Systems.
The Stratford-based business has developed a range of 10 traffic management programmes that are used by local authorities across Britain.
Now it hopes the voucher will help them produce a software model for the posts that hold the signs.
Director Jeremy Ellis said the system for putting poles into the ground was currently quite random and he was keen to improve it.
“At the moment engineers do the work based on what they see at the site, but we want to be able to offer software to take care of the civil engineering side of things beforehand,” he said.
“I think it is too early to say how good this voucher will be but we are really running into brick walls at the moment trying to source a civil engineer ourselves.
“This scheme is a very good mechanism to take our idea forward.”
For more information visit www.keytraffic.com.
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